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Lucario, Shulk and Meta Knight aren't the only amiibo figures to sign exclusivity deals with various retailers across the country; now Princess Rosalina and her Luma buddy (which are packaged together as one figure) will also take some extra effort to track down. According to an online listing, the figure - which is due for release in February - will be sold exclusively at Target.

Who knows how popular this particular amiibo will end up being or how many units Nintendo will ship, but if it's got your eye, it might behoove you to grab it while you can; Nintendo recently announced that, while the company may return select amiibo to shelves after their first run has sold out, "other [less popular] figures likely will not return to the market once they have sold through their initial shipment."

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsamiiboexclusivenintendotargettoyswii-uSun, 14 Dec 2014 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2014/12/10/take-two-unaffected-by-gta5s-removal-from-australian-stores/http://www.joystiq.com/2014/12/10/take-two-unaffected-by-gta5s-removal-from-australian-stores/http://www.joystiq.com/2014/12/10/take-two-unaffected-by-gta5s-removal-from-australian-stores/#commentsTarget and Kmart stores in Australia pulled Grand Theft Auto 5 from their shelves last week, following a review of the game's content and feedback from customers, the companies said. A change.org petition with nearly 50,000 signatures decried the game's depiction of violence against women and called upon Australian Target stores to remove the game. Take-Two President Karl Slatoff called the situation "disappointing" at a conference this week, but said it's not that big of a deal.

"Australia is relatively small for us and two retailers are relatively small in the context of Australia," Slatoff said. "There are other places for folks to buy Grand Theft Auto in Australia." Despite the low impact of the stores' decisions - both are subsidiaries of retail group Westfarmers - Slatoff had more to say about the situation. A lot more:

"It's one thing for someone to not want to buy a piece of content, which is completely understandable," Slatoff said. "And that's really the solution. If you don't like it and it's offensive to you, then you don't buy it. But for a person or a group of people to try to make that decision for millions of people .... We have 34 million people who bought Grand Theft Auto, and if these folks had their way, none of those people would be able to buy Grand Theft Auto. And that really just flies in the face of everything that free society is based on. It's the freedom of expression, and to try to squelch that is a dangerous and slippery slope to go down. So it's really more disappointing for us in that regard than it is in the context of our business. Our business is going to be completely unaffected by this; it doesn't make a difference to us. At the end of the day though, it's not something you want because it's a poor leadership decision."

Slatoff said that Take-Two hadn't seen a change in consumer habits in the area.

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Kmart became the second major Australian retailer to remove Grand Theft Auto 5 from sale following a 45,000 strong online petition. In a statement provided to Kotaku, a spokesperson for the department store chain said it plans to take the game off store shelves "immediately."

"Following a significant review of all content in Grand Theft Auto games Kmart has taken the decision to remove this product immediately," reads the statement. "Kmart apologizes for not being closer to the content of this game."

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Target has posted a preview of its Black Friday deal lineup, giving an early look at many of the cheap games and bundles available to shoppers later this month.

Starting on November 27, customers can pick up an Xbox One Assassin's Creed Unity bundle for $329.99, which includes a bonus $50 gift card. Other featured Black Friday deals include a Yoshi's New Island-bundled Nintendo 2DS for $99.99, The Evil Within and Shadow of Mordor for $25 each, and Skylanders Trap Team and Disney Infinity 2.0 Starter Packs for $39.99 apiece.

Target is additionally offering a buy-2-get-1-free deal on over 100 featured games in advance of the Black Friday sales rush. Cheap Ass Gamer breaks down all listed Target Black Friday deals here.

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Target is offering a Nintendo 2DS and Pokemon X hardware bundle at a steep discount this week, pricing the set at just $99.99 while supplies last.

The package includes a black-and-red Nintendo 2DS and a digital copy of 2013's Pokemon X. The bundle is regularly priced at $149.99, and the 2DS hardware itself normally retails for $129.99.

If you'd prefer to manage your Pokemon collection on a larger pair of screens, Target is also offering a $40 gift card with Nintendo 3DS XL purchases through April 19.

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Other outlets including the Microsoft Store are following Walmart's lead by reducing the Titanfall Xbox One bundle to $450. Target, Microsoft and Amazon (with the promo code XIAMAZON) are all offering the Titanfall bundle with the $50 discount, and both Target and Microsoft have the same price on the Standard bundle that includes a Forza 5 code.

The Microsoft Store denotes the bundles as "limited time discounts," so don't expect the reduced price to hang around for long, even if the console got a permanent price drop in the UK. On a side note, our pals at Engadget spotted Amazon getting a bit overexcited this morning after the retailer briefly marked down the Forza Xbox One bundle to $400 with the XIAMAZON code applied. It looks like it was an accident, though, since the bundle is back up to $499 and the code no longer works with it.

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Steam's Thin Wallets 2013 Campaign holiday sale continues today with a fresh batch of discounted games you surely have time to play. For the next 24 hours, the Darksiders series, season pass and all, is available for $9.99. Sleeping Dogs is down to $4.99, season passes for Telltale's The Wolf Among Us are $16.74, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is $4.99. The current batch of Flash sales will expire at 9 pm EST, but until then you can snatch up The Binding of Isaac for $1.24, XCOM: Enemy Unkown for $9.99, or Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut for $4.99.

Lastly, Target's recent credit card data breach has resulted in many of their in-store items being marked 10 percent off this weekend. Combined with their weeklong sale on 3DS XLs, that means you can pick up a 3DS XL today at Target for $135. If you don't have a 3DS yet, you might want to consider 2013's contributionstoitslineup.

Update: This article has been updated to reflect changes in pricing for the Steam holiday sale. Prices that were originally listed for the Darksiders series, The Wolf Among Us,KOTOR 2, The Binding of Isaac, XCOM: Enemy Unkown and Director's Cut have all been altered. Thankfully, they're now all cheaper than when the new batch of sales began!

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If you're looking to buy a handheld during the holidays, you could do much worse than the 3DS XL - particularly now that Target has knocked 25 percent off its standard retail price.

Keep in mind that this is only a limited time offer. Come next week the 3DS XL will return to its normal $200 price point. Further, those of you hoping to pick up a discounted 3DS XL won't be able to order the handheld over the 'net, but must instead head out into the harsh glare of real life to buy one at a Target retail location.

Otherwise there's surprisingly few caveats here. No rebates to send in, no extra bundle items to purchase; it's simply a 25 percent off discount on Nintendo's most popular handheld. If you're in the market for one, now would be a very good time to visit your nearest Target location.

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Nintendo is preparing a new 3DS XL bundle, including a pre-installed copy of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and a branded handheld, according to the leaked Target circular posted by GameTrailers. The $199.99 bundle will go on sale starting December 1.

The game's story centers around yet another Peachnapping and two alternate realities: the lucid world and another inside of Luigi's dreams. The brothers Mario work together across these two worlds in order to save Peach and an indigenous race of sleepy pillow-like creatures.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has sold over one million copies since its debut in August. In our review, we said Mario & Luigi: Dream Team "does a lot of things right, and is a satisfying detour for a franchise that is risking too much predictability in its main guise."

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Target has posted a sneak preview for its deluge of Black Friday deals and quite a few have been extended to the video games section of the store. Headlining the weekend of savings from November 28 to November 30 are a pair of console deals: a 4GB Xbox 360 S bundle, which includes Kinect Sports Season Two and Kinect Adventures, for $190 and a 250GB PS3 system with The Last of Us and Batman: Arkham Origins for $200.

Select current-gen games have also had their prices slashed. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Max Payne 3 are both down to $10; Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Splinter Cell: Blacklist are $25; and Battlefield 4, Batman: Arkham Origins and Madden NFL 25 are $35.

We know what you're thinking: "What about all those launch games for PS4 and Xbox One that I want?" We filtered the platforms down on Target's sales page, and found that only four next-gen games are seemingly eligible for the sale: NBA 2K14 on PS3 and Battlefield 4, Fighter Within and Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox One.

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Target is offering 3 for 2 on PlayStation 4 games when the console launches next month, according to an image of a leaked flyer posted on Reddit. The flyer, apparently for deals from November 10-16, indicates each of the games shown and "more in stores" will be eligible. The fine print notes the three games must be different, so don't go trying to hoard all the Killzones, you would-be Killzone hoarders.

It's also worth noting the flyer lists some of the games, like Madden 25, FIFA 14, Assassin's Creed 4, and Battlefield 4, as available starting Tuesday, i.e. November 12. As ever with new system launches, we're seeing next-gen games beat their next-gen consoles to retail shelves. For example GameStop is already selling Killzone: Shadow Fall, if you fancy staring at a box for two weeks. Or just hoarding it.

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The Ouya's brick and mortar retail presence will grow to include 1,800 Target locations, Ouya founder Julie Uhrman told Polygon. While the Ouya has existed within Target stores for some time, its availability has been limited to select locations, rather than every location, as will be the case now.

The Android microconsole's retail packaging has been spruced up to take advantage of its new-found exposure, Uhrman said. Target will push the device in its winter circular, through video adverts in its electronics departments and with special displays starting in December, though the Ouya's expanded availability goes into effect this month. Demo units are planned for early next year - Uhrman called production of the kiosks "incredibly expensive," a fact compounded by the necessity to design a wired controller for the system.

In related news, Ouya is also in the process of negotiating availability at Wal-mart. "I would expect something, us to announce something with them soon," Uhrman said.

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Sony's got good news for those of you hoping to test out the PlayStation 4 prior to its launch: By visiting select retailers, players can try the PS4 right this very minute.

According to Sony, these demo kiosks will be gradually rolled out over the coming weeks, leading up to the PS4 launch. Sony Stores, GameStop, Target, Wal-Mart and Best Buy are most likely to receive kiosks first, though Sony claims that other retailers will also be participating.

This means nothing to you if there's not a participating store in your area, but helpfully Sony has also issued a list of which stores now feature PS4 kiosks. If you visit Experience PlayStation and enter your zip code, you'll be presented with a map of all stores carrying PS4 demo stations within your area. The system seems to be a bit glitchy at the moment - according to Experience PlayStation, the PS4 kiosk nearest my apartment is supposedly inside "The Wood Doctor," a hardware store specializing in kitchen remodeling - but Sony has assured us that this is a temporary problem.

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A number of retailers are offering Xbox 360 bundles for $50 off. Among those participating in the deal are GameStop and Walmart, while picking up a new Xbox 360 from Target, Best Buy or Amazon will net you an additional $50 gift card on top of saving $50 on select bundles.

The $200 Kinect-less 4 GB Xbox 360 is not included in the deal, but the Nike+ Kinect Training bundle is, along with other packages that include games such as Darksiders 2 and Batman: Arkham City. The sale is for a limited time, though no end date is listed at any of the retailers.

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A purported Target retail listing suggests a new 32GB Wii U bundle is on the way, and that it includes The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.

Word comes from Destructoid, which claims a source at retailer Target shared some listings from the company's internal tracking system. The Destructoid source pegs the new console at $349.99, the same price as the 32GB console offered now at retail.

That same source also claims Nintendo will offer two special 3DS XL bundles that include a copy of Pokemon X/Y for $199.99. And though no launch date was provided for these proposed bundles, we'd assume Nintendo is eyeing October - that's when both Pokemon games and Wind Waker HD will launch.

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The PlayStation Vita's price may be coming down in the near future, providing a leaked Target ad by the Blu-Ray Forum is accurate. The ad, a snippet of which can be seen above, shows a $200 price point for the system. The standard retail price for the WiFi-only Vita is $250, while the 3G-enabled Vita is $300.

Japan received a price cut for the system in February, which was followed by Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida saying that North American players would not see the same price drop. Whether this ad indicates a permanent price drop is on the way is unclear, though it's just a matter of time before we know for sure; the ad is reportedly for the week of August 18 through August 24.

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Activision has announced that Target will be passing out magic cards with pre-orders for the upcoming Skylanders Swap Force. Portalmasters who pre-order the game at Target will get an exclusive physical trading card that grants upgrades in the game when placed on the new Portal of Power.

Swap Force's marquee feature is that it uses characters with two parts that can be mixed and matched, but these specially branded trading cards will work as well.

There's also an ongoing deal (at all retailers) that grants a free "Lightcore Hex" Skylanders Giants character when you pre-order a starter pack. This Giants character, like all of the other characters in the series so far, can also be used to play through Swap Force content. If you're a parent of younger children, it's also something else for you to trip over.

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Target is currently offering the 8GB Wii U Basic at $239.99, one of the lowest prices if not the lowest price we've seen from a major North American retailer. Put your calculators away: that's 20 percent off the normal price of $300. Back in March, Best Buy put the Wii U Basic on sale at $250 for a couple of days.

The Wii U fell below targets In Nintendo's year-end financials, coming in at 3.45 million shipped worldwide as of March 31. According to the estimates of Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, aka the Pachter-tron, the Wii U sold 55,000 units in the US last month.

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Though Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag launches later this year, North American retailers are vying for your dollars today by announcing a slew of retailer-specific pre-order bonuses.

GameStop has the 'Black Island' pack, which includes the deadly black ship, a Captain Morgan costume and his silver flintlock pistol. Amazon.com will offer the 'Hidden Mystery' pack, an extra treasure-hunting mission on Mystery Island, Stede Bonnet's ship and Sted Bonnet costumes and multiplayer items. Walmart gets the 'Sacrificed Secrets' pack, a collection centered around Captain Drake that includes his dual-wield swords and pistols, plus his picture, title and relics. Best Buy has the 'Lost Treasures' pack, an ivory wheel and spyglass relic, and Target gets the 'Trove of Mystery' pack, which includes an iron wheel and astrolab relic.

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag launches on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC on October 29. Next-generation console ports of Assassin's Creed 4 are also planned. All UK pre-orders get access to "The Watch" app.

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We know (as if we didn't before) that Activision has another edition of its shooter series slated for this year. "The Call of Duty franchise continues to set the bar for innovation," company CFO Dennis Durkin said during Activision's February earnings call, "And we expect the new Call of Duty game in development for 2013 to raise that bar even higher."

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>activisionactivision-blizzardcall-of-dutycall-of-duty-ghostsinfinity-wardmicrosoftplaystationps3release-datetargettescoxboxWed, 24 Apr 2013 11:04:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/05/ouya-comes-to-retail-in-june/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/05/ouya-comes-to-retail-in-june/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/05/ouya-comes-to-retail-in-june/#commentsThe Ouya officially launches in June, and several retailers are lined up to sell the wee Android console both online and in physical stores. Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and GameStop are all taking pre-orders starting today, with the console plus controller priced at $99.99, and an extra controller $49.99.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said Kickstarter backers get their orders delivered in March, pre-order deliveries go out in April, and June sees the official launch. When asked about other console launches coming this year, Uhrman said the aim is for Ouya to find its own place in the market, and not to outdo the likes of Microsoft and Sony.

"We don't need to beat Xbox or Sony or any console that enters the marketplace," Uhrman told the Wall Street Journal, "We need to carve out our own niche. Ouya offers a very different value proposition to the gaming you can currently experience. It's a box designed specifically for the television that leverages the screen, we support 3D gaming, HD, we support the controller, we added a touchpad to the controller. The kind of content you'll see on Ouya, it'll be inventive and creative and has never been on the television."

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>amazonandroidbest-buygamestopmobileouyarelease-datetargetTue, 05 Feb 2013 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/exclusive-epic-mickey-2-ps3-hardware-bundles-at-target/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/exclusive-epic-mickey-2-ps3-hardware-bundles-at-target/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/exclusive-epic-mickey-2-ps3-hardware-bundles-at-target/#commentsA new PS3 bundle available only at Target gets you the system and Move controller you'll need to play J.S. Joust (assuming the SportsfriendsKickstarter is a success!) and throws in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Illusion for good measure.

The $300 bundle comes with a 250GB PS3, a copy of the game, a Move, a Navigation Controller, a PS Eye camera, and 30 days of PlayStation Plus. We didn't find Epic Mickey 2 to be strong enough to anchor a bundle, but the character is at least more recognizable than, say, Infamous guy.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>bundleepic-mickey-2moveplaystationps3targetTue, 04 Dec 2012 16:30:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/10/targets-black-friday-deals-include-360-ps3-wii-vita-and-3ds/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/10/targets-black-friday-deals-include-360-ps3-wii-vita-and-3ds/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/10/targets-black-friday-deals-include-360-ps3-wii-vita-and-3ds/#commentsLook, we're not your parents. We're not going to sit here, high upon our internet throne and tell you what you can and can't do. Even if we did discourage you from putting yourself in a potentially trample-prone environment, you'd still do it for dat savings.

Take Target's Black Friday deals, for example. These scanned pages reveal PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 bundles with two games each for $200, as well as a free copy of Just Dance Kids 2 with the purchase of a $120 Wii bundle. Vita and 3DS bundles (with one game each) are available for $200 and $150 respectively, while PS3, 360 and Wii controllers cost $40 and a bonus $20 giftcard is included in the purchase of Halo 4, Assassin's Creed 3 or Forza Horizon. You can even get Adele's irrelevant first album for $5, or one of those cool magnadoodle thingies for half a sawbuck.

Whatever you do on Black Friday, just, you know, be safe. You're our precious little darling babies and we don't want anything to happen to you.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsblack-fridayblack-friday-2012iosipadiphonekinectmicrosoftmobilenintendoplaystationplaystation-vitaps3targetvitawiixboxSat, 10 Nov 2012 22:30:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/05/wii-u-demo-kiosks-available-at-us-retailers/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/05/wii-u-demo-kiosks-available-at-us-retailers/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/05/wii-u-demo-kiosks-available-at-us-retailers/#commentsIf you're interested in checking out a Wii U pre-launch - or just interested in finally explaining to someone that it is an actual new console and not just a peripheral - here's your chance. Nintendo reports that over 5,000 Wii U demo stations are present in US retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Toys R Us, GameStop, and Walmart. To find your nearest Wii U demo station, search here.

Chances are, however, you can just see your nearest one from your home, if they're all as enormous as the one pictured.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>best-buygamestopkiosknintendotargettoys-r-uswalmartwii-uMon, 05 Nov 2012 10:40:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/16/wii-u-selling-out-fast-online-heres-where-you-can-still-get-it/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/16/wii-u-selling-out-fast-online-heres-where-you-can-still-get-it/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/16/wii-u-selling-out-fast-online-heres-where-you-can-still-get-it/#commentsNintendo's Wii U is off to a holiday-sales head-start, with pre-orders of the Deluxe and Basic bundles selling out at many online retailers. The Deluxe bundle includes a black, 32GB Wii U for $350, while the Basic system has a white, 8GB Wii U for $300.

Below we have a list of stores where both versions of the Wii U are sold out and where they are still available. Though for how long they remain available, we can't predict.

Best Buy,Toys R Us, and Target are sold out of both versions online. Sears and Kmart, which belong to the same parent company, are both sold out of the Deluxe version and don't appear to offer the Basic.

GameStop is sold out of the 32GB, black Deluxe bundle, but the 8GB, white Basic bundle is still available for pre-order.

Wal Mart is holding strong with both versions (Deluxe and Basic) still available on their own or as part of the Wal Mart Solution Bundle, which adds a Wii Remote Plus and a choice of a Wii U game to either system. The Solution Bundle is $400 for the Basic set or $450 for the Deluxe.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Best-Buygamestopkmartnintendopre-ordersearssold-outTargettoys-r-uswal-martwii-uSun, 16 Sep 2012 13:30:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/03/dishonored-pre-order-bonuses-continue-dishonorable-tradition-of/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/03/dishonored-pre-order-bonuses-continue-dishonorable-tradition-of/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/03/dishonored-pre-order-bonuses-continue-dishonorable-tradition-of/#commentsThe marketing team at Bethesda Softworks cooked up a pre-order plan to go along with Dishonored that's perfectly fitting for the game's title, it seems. Like so many pre-order schemes these days, the Dishonored bonuses are varied across several retailers, making it impossible to purchase the game without a sense that you're missing something (well, unless you buy four different copies of the game, all with pre-order bonuses attached).

Should you choose to participate in this arcane chicanery, might we suggest not snagging Target's bonus? While GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart each get their own "downloadable upgrade pack" for one of the game's playable characters, Target simply gets a Dishonored "smart phone decal." Not exactly what we'd call the best convincer. Also, the Best Buy one comes with a "Whale Oil USB Lamp," so, ya know, kinda the obvious choice.

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If waking up at 5am in the morning this Friday to grab some of those deals on video games at Gamestop doesn't sound like your idea of a good time, then good news times two: One, you're completely sane. Second, GameStop is actually opening at 12:01am on Thanksgiving night/Friday morning, so if you can wake yourself out of your turkey coma to go and buy some games, you can get all your shopping done before the moon even comes out.

You can see all of the available deals on video games, online and offline, in our big, bad Black Friday deals post for this year. If you do head out to buy some items right away at midnight, maybe offer to buy the employees you see there some doughnuts or coffee -- if they're out there all night, they'll probably need it.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>best-buyblack-fridayblack-friday-211gamestopholidayretailerssalestargetthanksgivingtoys-r-usWed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/target-black-friday-deals-37-bf3-resistance-3-180-3ds-bundl/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/target-black-friday-deals-37-bf3-resistance-3-180-3ds-bundl/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/target-black-friday-deals-37-bf3-resistance-3-180-3ds-bundl/#comments
Target offers yet another choice if you're looking to stand in line on Black Friday for a $199 160 PS3 with LBP2 and Ratchet & Clank All 4 One, or a $99 Kinect with Kinect Adventures and The Gunstringer (with a bonus Wipeout 2, if that matters). Those console deals headline Target's Black Friday offers, along with a $179 3DS/Super Mario 3D Land bundle.

Target will also sell Battlefield 3, Gears 3, Resistance 3, Need for Speed 3: The Run, and Madden 12 for $37 each; and Forza 4, Kinect Sports 2, Dance Central 2, and more for $27 each. You also get a $10 gift card with the purchase of Rayman Origins, Ocarina of Time 3D, Skyrim, or two others.

That's all great, but the best deal is Babysitting Mama for $5. That's a game that you control with a doll!

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsblack-friday-2011dskinectmicrosoftnintendoplaystationps3targetwiixboxFri, 18 Nov 2011 22:30:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/black-friday-2011-video-game-deals/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/black-friday-2011-video-game-deals/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/black-friday-2011-video-game-deals/#commentsIt's nearly the moment you've been preparing for all year, savvy shopper. And right here? Here is the page from which you finalize your Black Friday master plan. You'll show those retailers, alright ... or is it the other way around?

Here we go again, y'all -- one week 'til Black Friday 2011. In that vein, we've once more compiled our annual testament to post-Turkey retail madness, replete with savings from vendors large and small, brick-and-mortar as well as online.

Up above, you can head directly into any of "The Big Six" sections by clicking the individual logos. Down below, some highlights to help guide that process:

Best Buy: Consoles on the cheap and the special edition Zelda 3DS [more details]

GameStop: Like Best Buy, but you can totally trade in stuff [more details]

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsbest-buyblack-fridayblack-friday-2011dsgamestopkinectkmartmicrosoftnintendopcplaystationps3pspsearssonytargetwalmartwiixboxFri, 18 Nov 2011 20:15:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/target-offers-buy-2-get-1-free-deal-on-games-next-week/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/target-offers-buy-2-get-1-free-deal-on-games-next-week/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/target-offers-buy-2-get-1-free-deal-on-games-next-week/#comments
Target will hold a "buy 2, get 1 free" sale on its stock of video games next week. With half of the season's major titles out -- Uncharted 3 hits next Tuesday during the sale -- 'tis the season for bargain watching.

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If 20 free games isn't enough incentive to spend $170 on a 3DS today, Target and GameStop have some deals that might interest you this weekend. Starting tomorrow and running through Saturday, GameStop is offering a $99 3DS with the trade-in of a DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL (sorry, no DS Phats). The only catch, you must have a PowerUp Rewards "Pro" member - which has a $15 membership fee - and you'll need a coupon. Starting Friday, Pro members can log in to the PowerUp Rewards website to print the coupon.

Depending on which DS you have, Target is offering an even better deal. Friday and Saturday only, Target will accept DS trade-ins for varying amounts of credit toward a 3DS. A DSi XL will earn you $100 and a DSi will net you $75. At the low end of the spectrum, a DS Lite is only good for a $40 credit towards a 3DS purchase. Still, if you've been wanting to unload that XL (they are heavy), you can snag a 3DS for only $70.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsdsgamestopnintendotargetThu, 11 Aug 2011 19:40:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/10/target-drops-nintendo-3ds-price-to-170-today-get-those-20-free/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/10/target-drops-nintendo-3ds-price-to-170-today-get-those-20-free/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/10/target-drops-nintendo-3ds-price-to-170-today-get-those-20-free/#comments
Target has dropped the price of the Nintendo 3DS to $170, a response likely initiated by yesterday's opening shot from Walmart. A Target employee tells Joystiq, "There is a message board out to every store that the price changes are active today. Price changes must be activated by corporate."

Officially, the Nintendo 3DS drop is to occur on August 12, reducing the current $250 asking price by thirty percent. Nintendo still has its early adopter bonus going until August 11, meaning if you grab one of these reduced 3DS units, you're still good to get the 20 free downloadable games once you register.

Now, we wait and see if every other retailer jumps into the price cut pool before Walmart and Target siphon all the sales.

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If you've just gotta get those blue sparks, but also have to maintain your personal fiscal responsibility during these tough and uncertain economic times, Walmart.com has made your internal struggle between green-backs and green shells a little easier to reconcile by dropping both black and white Wii Mario Kart bundles to $134.00.

Other online storefronts such as Best Buy and Target still have the bundle listed for $149.99, so this appears to be a Walmart-thing, rather than a Nintendo-thing. It will be interesting to see if other retailers follow suit, or if Nintendo will drop the price themselves ahead of the Wii U's launch, which would render Walmart's 15 dollar discount irrelevant. Either way, Walmart certainly seems determined to move some Nintendo merchandise out the door.

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Target is offering up a pretty solid deal on an Xbox 360 Kinect bundle, if you need one for the garage (you know, the one place in your house where you actually have enough room for the thing to work). For this weekend only, you can get the standard Kinect setup for $299, and the Targe will throw in a $100 gift card as a bonus.

Unfortunately, that bundle only includes 4GB of memory, so you might have to pay out for an upgrade if you want to download a lot of XBLA titles. But perhaps that extra Benjamin you'll have picked up can help with that.

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Despite the fact that retailers will assuredly have plenty of extra copies of Forza 4 when it arrives at retail, perhaps you're interested in pre-ordering the game long before its planned fall launch? Well that's just peachy, 'cause today Microsoft announced pre-order bonuses that folks can pick up at a variety of retailers.

Unfortunately -- as has become de rigeur as of late -- rather than making it so fans of the series can actually acquire all the pre-order items that they're nicely plunking down money for ahead of time, various retailers have exclusive in-game content that can only be attained through a pre-order at their stores. In essence, this means that folks who pre-order Forza 4 at Target are locked out of the bonuses being offered at Amazon, GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy... at least, unless the retailer DLC is offered later through XBLM.

At very least, fans who pick up the game (at any store) around its launch later this year will snag a quintet of free vehicles in the "Ship Bonus" car pack, listed alongside the aforementioned pre-order items below the break. The car pack will only be free to folks purchasing the "first production run" of Forza 4, so be sure to choose your fastest supercar for shuttling to the local brick and mortar.

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We kind of expected to see additional evidence of an upcoming Wii price drop if it's true, but now we have conflicting evidence. While rumors currently have the system dropping to $149.99 on May 15, images posted on GenGame show what appear to be an internal Target communication about the price changing to $169.99 this Monday.

The Target information refers to "Black Wii Console with Motion Plus Controller," which could either be a semi-accurate description of the most recent Wii hardware configuration (which includes a Wii Remote Plus), or a previous iteration which came with Wii Sports Resort, a Wii Remote, and a MotionPlus add-on.

If it's the latter (and these images are real), then this is a clearance of outdated hardware; if it's the former, it's a likely signal of a manufacturer price drop. In either case, it means the possibility of cheaper Wii hardware.

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There's a gag floating around in Target's current discount on Call of Duty: Black Ops -- now available at the retailer for $47 -- but we're having trouble finding it. Soldiers shoot at Targets, see? And there are a lot of soldiers in Call of Duty: Black Ops. And Target? It's the name of the store. There's gotta be some combination of those concepts that we can weave together into a pun, but it's eluding us.

Target's knocking $10 off the price of a number of other recent releases as well, including Fable 3, Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Medal of Honor, but none of those really have anything to do with targets, now do they? Except for Medal of Honor, which also plays host to a number of soldiers. Hm. Check out all of Target's gaming discounts -- available until Saturday, Dec. 18 -- after the jump.